I want to use this program along with bitaddress.org & brainwallet.org to triple check the address pairs generated. Can someone explain to me in lay terms, step by step how to install this?

I tried to install WINE in Puppy and run this app but it did not seem to work (WINE seemed to install but the exe did not do anything when clicked on), I wonder if my machine might be too old to run WINE.

Im on Wary 5.1.1. This is run off a CD. Im not sure on QT - I did not install much that is not built into the install. I searched in the package manager and a search for 'qt' it shows "qt4-4.5.3-1w5" and a 3 other related packages?

I should note I have a compiled version of the software for Windows from https://casascius.com/btcaddress-alpha.zip, but not sure if I use that or re-compile the source code to best get to work in Puppy? Which tar.gz are you talking about? I only see https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility/archive/master.zip

Semme - you are linking to the Bitcoin client. What I was trying to install is a separate utility used just to create addresses, the project is here: https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility

Is that something you can help with?

Semme wrote:

Before getting over our heads, try the executable and see what it says >> DIRECT DWNLD.

Make sure you 'extract' the pkg, not install. Your home directory's fine for the moment.

Yeah, sure appears Wine specific. What you need is someone with a working setup on 5.1.1. As an additional- I'd ask about the program here. And while investigating I came across Vanitygen. Built OK and runs fine- commandline only however. The below warning is something you could probably overcome with an updated lib. Furthermore- I intentionally kept gen creation quick..

OK, I put these files on my pup in the usr/local/bin. I then open "console" and type "./vanitygen passphrase" and got "bash: ./vanitygen: No such file or directory"

Same message if I do "./keyconv passphrase". Or if I just do "keyconv passphrase" I get "keyconv: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE: just looking here - in the example above 1Lvr is a pattern, not a passphrase from which to generate keys. This may not do what I am looking for. I am looking to mimic the passphrase usage from the brainwallet tab at https://www.bitaddress.org - so as to doublecheck its output. I believe a SHA256 is done on the passphrase and then it is converted to base58 to get a private key and then some additional derivation is done from that to get the corresponding public key. I know the Cacascius tool for Windows does this, any other way to do this via command line in Linux or otherwise?

It looks like from here, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133220.0, Bitcoin Armory has the functionality to make keys from passphrase and has Linux builds. Is there a way to port this to Puppy? https://bitcoinarmory.com/building-armory-from-source/

I have not confirmed this yet from my tinkering cuz I'm not sure what command line commands make the pairs.... but brainstorming on it.

Having a hard time - was hoping to keep this offline and all the Wine installs seem to install dependencies from the internet. Is there a lightweight puppy derivative that has Wine installed? I looked at Lighthouse pup but it was over 200mb...

Well I got Lighthouse 5.03g installed off CD, and it seems to run OK.Wine comes prepackaged minus the stuff for the html (it warned me this is not installed, but I assume I won't need?) to just run this exe for the Bitcoin Address Generator? Anyway I cannot get it to run. I click on the exe and nothing seems to happen though it does appear Wine opens/runs in the background.

Semme, I have the same files running on Ubuntu Wine no issue, so shouldn't the same files work in Puppy Linux? These are the program files, assuming then that all the dependencies are included in the below unless there is something this needs that Ubuntu has and PL does not?

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